Overdrive gearing



May 30, 1939- o. H. BANKER 2,159,980

OVERDRIVE; GEARING Filed Aug. 7, 1955 ATTORNEYS Patented Mayj30, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT vOFFICE:

ovERDRIvE GEARING Y Oscar H. Banker, Chicago, Ill., assigner to New Products Corporation, Chicago, Ill., a corporation of Delaware Application August 7, 1935, Serial No. 35,056l

' 2 claims.. (c1. 'J4-29o) A further object of the invention is to provide a planetary overdrive transmission of the type f' above described in which it is not necessary to alter the position of the parts of the overdrive to effect a reverse.

I'he invention further consists in the several features hereinafter described and more particularly dened by claims at the conclusion hereof.

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Fig. 1 is a half vertical sectional view of a transmission mechanism embodying the invention, some of the parts being shown partly in 2b elevation;

Fig. 2 is a detail sectional view taken on the line 2-t-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view taken on the Y line 3-3 ofFg. 2;

Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

In Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing, the numeral 51 designates a casing section and 58 another casing section detachably secured together by the bolts 8 and in order that there may be no protruding bosses and the exterior dimensions of these casing parts be reduced to a minimum the section 51 has 'a removable bolt anchorage in the form of a ring member 9 in threaded engagement at I 0 40 with the inner wall of said section and provided with threaded holes I I to receive the bolts 8 which pass through openings I2 in the section 58. This connection is further shown and particularly claimed in a companion application Serial No.

35,054, filed August "I, 1935. The section 51 is secured to the propeller shaft housing I3 by the bolts I4.

The drive shaft 53 and the driven shaft 54 aligned therewith are journalled in the housing formed by the casing sections 51 and 58. A ball bearing journal 55 for the drive shaft has its inner race mounted on said shaft and its outer race mounted in a anged ring portion 59 of a jaw clutch element 12 which is secured to the 55 housing by being clamped between the section 51 and the adjacentvportion of the housing I3 and is keyed to the rst named section by a key 51.

In this construction the planet gears and carrier with the shiftable overrunning clutch ele- 5 ment are arranged to be shifted as a unit.

A sun gear 6I) is loosely mounted on the drive shaft 53, and its hub 60' has ajaw clutch face formed on one end with clutch teeth 6I, and it also forms a bearing for the hub 62 of a part 10 63 of a planetary carrier.

A part 64 of the planetary carrier has its hub 65 slidably splined or keyed to the drive shaft 53 and provided with jaw clutch teeth 66. The

lparts 63 and 64 are secured together and arranged 15 in spaced relation by suitable bolts (not shown) and said carrier has the pinion shafts 61 detachably mounted in said parts and to the planet pinions 68. As herein shown, each planet shaft 61 is locked in position by having its shouldered 20 head 61' engage a locking plate 65 held to the part 65 of the planetary carrier by a split locking ring 53'.

The planet pinion 68, two or more in number and only one of which is shown, mesh with the 25 sun gear 60 and with an orbit gear 69 whose hub 'l0 is splined to or formed integrally with the driven shaft 54 and has jaw clutch teeth 1I formed on it and adapted to mesh with the jaw clutch teeth 66 in one position of the drive mecha- 30 nism. The hub 10 of the orbit gear is journalled in a ball bearing journal 56 interposed between it and the casing section 58 and the inner end of the shaft 53 is journalled in a ball bearing journal 13 interposed between it and said hub 10. 35

The clutch element has jaw clutch teeth l2 formed on it adapted to mesh with the mating teeth 6I on the hub of the sun gear and provide a jaw clutch of the overruning type, the teeth having inclined faces. 40

`The teeth 66 on the planetary carrier hub cooperate with the teeth II on the hub of the orbit gear to form a jaw clutch of the overrunning type, the teeth having inclined faces as shown in Fig. 4. The hub 62, the parts 63 of the plan- 45 etary carrier have an annular groove 38 in which the pivoted slipper ends 39 of a shifter fork 4I] are mounted, said fork being secured to a shaft 4I journalled in the casing section 5l and having an exteriorly disposed crank arm 42 secured 50 thereto.

vA crank arm 43 is mounted to pivot on aboss 44 of the housing concentric with the shaft 4I and its end 45 is disposed to operate in an arc below the center of the arc through which the 5E `a link 5U which may be actuated in any suitable manner by the operator from his position in the vehicle. 'I'he movement of the arm 43 is limited f by the stops 5| and 52.

. The sun gear 60, planetary carrier including parts 63, 6'4, 61, and the pinions 68 are through lthe above described mechanism shiftable as a unit along the shaft 53, the teeth of the orbit gear 69 being long enough so as to retain the meshing engagement with said pinions in either of their positions.

In Fig. 1 the parts are in position for. direct drive through the intermeshing clutch teeth 66 and 1| since the hub 65 is keyed to the drive shaft 53 and the hub 10 is keyed to the driven shaft 54, and it will be noted that under these conditions the gearing itself does not serve to lock the drive and driven shafts together and hence noise that might otherwise occur through the backlash ac tion of the teeth of the gearing is eliminated. If now the operator wants to go into overdrive, he pulls the link 50 to bring the arm 43 against the stop 52 and this puts the spring 49 in tension and tends to pull the arm 42 toward the right as viewed in Fig. 3 or toward the left as viewed in Fig. 2 and thus tends to shift the clutch assembly including the parts 60 and 65 toward the left as viewed in Fig. 1. 'I'his pull becomes e'ective when thev torque between the jaws 66 and H is broken by temporarily decelerating the speed of the drive shaft 53 as by the drivers momentarily taking his foot oi the accelerator, and then the spring 49 acts on the shifter mechanism above described to shift the sun gear and planet carrier to a position in which the teeth 6l will mesh with the teeth 'l2 and this locks the sun gear S0 against rotation, and 4then as the operator again feeds the gas or accelerates the speed of the drive shaft, the planet pinions 68 will revolve,

about the stationary sun gear 60 and drive the orbit gear 69 and consequently the shaft 54 at a higher rate of speed than that of the drive shaft 53. If in the condition of overdrive the operator wishes to change back to direct drive, he sets the control by a push on the link 50 to shift the arm 43 to the full line position shown in Fig. 3 against the stop 5| putting the spring H9 under tension and tending to swing the arm 42 to the full line position, and Vthis movement is effected and engagement of the jaws 66 and 7l, when the previous engagement of the jaws 'l2 and 6| is broken by a temporary deceleration of the drive shaft 53 followed by the movement of the sun gear and planet carrier assembly to the position shown in Fig. l, which engagement is effected by the operator again accelerating or feeding the gas. In this construction the shiftable clutch element or member is formed by the hubs of the sun gear and planetary carrier.

It is also to be noted that the gearing drives in the same direction in either of its operating positions so that it is not necessary to alter the position of the parts of the overdrive on a reversal o1' the drive of the drive shaft 53.

This application is directed to certain lmodii` cations of the overdrive mechanism shown and described in my copending application Serial No. 728,247, filed May 31, 1934.

I desire itv to be understood that this invention is not to be limited to any particular form or arrangement of parts except in so far as such limitations are included in the claims.

v What I claim as my invention is:

1. In a change speed gearing, the combination of a drive shaft, a driven shaft, change speed planetary gearing between said shafts including a sun gear and a planetary carrier shiftable as a unit relative to said drive and driven shafts and having a pinion mounted thereon meshing with said sun gear, said carrier being operatively connected with said drive shaft, an orbit gear connected to said driven shaft and meshing with said pinion, said shiftable unit provided with clutch jaws, a clutch jaw associated with said driven shaft and adapted to engage one of said clutch jaws in one position of said shiftable unit for direct connection between s'aid shafts independent of said gearing, a relatively fixed clutch jaw adapted to engage the other of said clutch jaws in the other position of said shiftable unit for holding said sun gear stationary, means for shifting said unit, the Jaws of said clutches being of the overrunning type.

2. In a changev speed gearing, the combination of a drive shaft, a driven shaft, change speed planetary gearing between said shafts including a sun gear and a planetary gear carrier shiftable as a. unit relative to said drive and driven'shafts and having a pinion mounted thereon meshing with said sun gear, said carrier being operatively connected with said drive shaft, an orbit gear connected to said driven shaft and meshing .with said pinion, said shiftable unit being provided vwith clutch jaws, one jaw on the hub of the planetary carrier and the other jaw on the hub' of the sun gear, a clutch jaw associated with the driven shaft and adapted to engage the clutch jaw on the hub of the planetary carrier in one 

